Lab Members

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Completed Training

Joong-Won Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ryo Yonashiro, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dario Passos, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Erich Tahara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Mario H. Bengtson
Postdoctoral Fellow
2002-2012
Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Irene Kwan
Research Technician

Jessica Greiner
Research Intern
Research Associate at Verdezyne

Ivana Novak, Ph.D.
Visiting Postdoctoral fellow

Wei Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
5/02-11/07
Presently Senior Scientist at Rigel

Axel Ulbrich, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
2/06-6/09
Presently Scientist at EMD Biosciences

Carlos Melo
Graduate student, University of Coimbra (co-supervised) 
10/05-3/06 
Presently Graduate student at Stanford University

Feng Gao, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
3/03-9/05
Presently Scientist at Pfizer

Claudio Masuda, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
4/02-10/05
Presently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Kathryn Donaldson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
3/01-10/03
Presently staying home with her two kids in the Bay Area

Catarina Ramos, Ph.D.
Research Intern
1/02-10/02
Presently Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal

Mark Verdecia, Ph.D.
Visiting graduate student, Salk Institute/UCSD Biology Program
04/01-6/01
Research Specialist, Visiting Scientist Program at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute